Grégory Fitoussi

Grégory Fitoussi
Grégory Fitoussi at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2013
Born	(1976-08-13) 13 August 1976 (age 50) Paris, France
Occupation	Actor

Grégory Fitoussi (born 13 August 1976) is a French actor. Born and raised in Paris, he rose to prominence playing Benjamin Losey in the French soap opera Sous le soleil (1998-2001). After departing the show, he had a prominent role in the police procedural and legal drama series Spiral (2005-2014), playing Pierre Clément, a young prosecutor. His other prominent television roles have included Spin (2012-2016), Mr Selfridge (2012-2015) and Peaky Blinders (2022).

Early life

He was born in 1976 in Paris to Pied-Noir Sephardi Jewish parents. His parents opened a clothing store in Paris managed by his mother, while his father designed the displays. At the age of 20 he abandoned his university studies in cultural mediation to pursue acting and taking classes with Jack Waltzer of the Actors Studio.

He appears alongside his brother, Mikaël Fitoussi, in the short film Alliés Nés, roughly based on his own family.

Career

Fitoussi appeared in the TF1 television soap Sous le soleil in which he played Benjamin, the husband of the character Laure Olivier. He also appeared in L'État de Grace, a television series broadcast on France 2, in which he played the gynaecologist of Grace, the president of France. Later, he played Maître Vidal, the lawyer of Marie Besnard (played by Muriel Robin), in the French docudrama The Poisoner (Marie Besnard, l'empoisonneuse).

Fitoussi had one of the lead roles in seasons 1-5 of French police procedural drama Engrenages, known in English as Spiral, where he played prosecutor/advocate Pierre Clément alongside Caroline Proust as Chief Inspector Laure Berthaud.

From 2012 to 2016, Fitoussi played spin doctor Ludovic Desmeuze in France 2's political thriller Les Hommes de l'ombre (Spin in English-speaking countries). The series was broadcast internationally, including by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. It was also broadcast internationally on the TV5Monde channels.

Between 2013 and 2015, Fitoussi appeared as Henri Leclair in 24 episodes of ITV's Mr Selfridge. He has followed up the role with a number of roles in English-language productions. In 2015, he appeared as Luc Girard in the NBC drama series American Odyssey. Later, in 2018, joined the cast of the second season of Sky Atlantic's Riviera. In 2022, he joined the sixth season of Netflix period crime drama, Peaky Blinders.

Personal life

He lives in Saint-Mandé, a high-end commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Grégory Fitoussi at IMDb